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Saturday 19th of December 1959 (-) — Victim of Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare Jillian Brewer is stabbed and hacked to death with a tomahawk and a pair of scissors by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster
18-year old Darryl Beamish provided four confessions, two through a sign language interpreter, one a written statement and another in notes scrawled on the exercise yard at the Perth lock-up. Beamish said the confessions were obtained through intimidation and threats, and were untrue. Nevertheless Beamish was convicted of wilful murder in 1961 and sentenced to death by hanging. The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he served 15 years. After six appeals his conviction was finally overturned in 2005. Sunday 27th of January 1963 (-) — Victim of Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare John Sturkey is shot dead by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare aka The Nedlands Monster
Nicholas August, his 40-year-old lover Roweena Reeves and 29-year-old Brian Weir were also shot and woonded in separate events on the same night. |
